News Will 12 week apprentices ever be derailed? Train’d Up is the latest provider to be advertsing 12 week apprenticeships. The Skills Funding Agency has allocated Train’d… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Youth unemployment ‘never’ higher The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have published the September edition of their Labour Market Statistics, and the summary… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News DfE considers first four 16-19 free schools It has emerged that four 16-19 Free Schools have been proposed. Last May the Department for Education (DfE) announced… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News SFA to take personal assets from directors of fraudulent providers The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has new powers allowing them to take personal assets which belong to the directors… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Where are the 16-18 year-olds? Survey of more than 100 colleges reveals shocking student shortfalls Colleges are facing a significant 16-18 recruitment shortfall, a… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Not-for-profit salaries ~ you decide… FE Week has been taking a look at the accounts of two similarly sized not-for-profit awarding bodies. These figures… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Learndirect aims to improve job prospects for 10,000 people Learndirect has launched Make It Count Week to help improve the nation’s job prospects. Aiming to inspire and encourage… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News McVitie’s man is Rep of the Year A union member has taken home a top award for introducing hundreds of colleagues to learning. USDAW member Jonathan… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Group adds to Careers Service debate A membership body which represents 27 further education colleges has called on the government to think again on the future… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News Latest apprenticeship policy slammed The Shadow Minister for Further Education and Skills, Gordon Marsden, has hit out at a Government policy designed to… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News City & Guilds allocated more than £8m for 25,000 Asda apprentices The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has allocated more than £8m to City & Guilds in order to deliver 25,000… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y News 12 week apprenticeships still advertised Despite increased criticism in what the Chief Executive of the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) called ‘hot-housing’, many short NVQ… FE Week Reporter 13y FE Week Reporter 13y Newer 1 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 Older Must read Colleges, Long read Long read Resilient Ricketts: How Brooklands was saved from going broke The story of a college’s fight for survival after a subcontracting scandal left it on the brink of insolvency Billy Camden 4w Billy Camden 4w Politics Exclusive Exit interview: Why Robert Halfon quit ‘the best job in government’ Halfon tells FE Week he ‘did all he could’ after leaving skills minister role Shane Chowen 4w Shane Chowen 4w Apprenticeships National apprenticeship achievement rate rises to 54% Slight increase leaves sector way off government target Billy Camden 1mo Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 1mo Next 3 stories Apprenticeships Exclusive Apprenticeship growth pilot cash would reach just 15 ITPs Providers need to start at least 15 apprentices on the chosen standards to be eligible for extra funding Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Apprenticeships Exclusive Treasury announces £3k top-up for 13 ‘growth sector’ apprenticeships Training providers will have to deliver a minimum number of starts to access the cash Shane Chowen 2mo Shane Chowen 2mo Apprenticeships, Politics Exclusive DfE set to surrender £60m apprenticeship cash in 2023-24 Just 2% of total ring-fenced budget expected to be handed back to Treasury Billy Camden 2mo Billy Camden 2mo
